McGraw-Hill Education builds up its adaptive learning chops with purchase of ALEKS

In yet another sign that adaptive learning is one of the hottest ed tech trends du jour, McGraw-Hill Education is snapping up ALEKS Corporation, an Irvine, Calif.-based developer of an artificially intelligent learning and assessment system.

Developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, ALEKS (Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces) creates educational software that assesses a student’s understanding of course content and then delivers customized instruction. The company says that it has been used by millions of students in more than 100 different math, science and business courses at K-12 schools, colleges and universities.